Livius, Titus

folio (310 x 217mm.), title printed in red, woodcut initials, start of each Decade with woodcut illustration and with woodcut border, woodcut illustrations, woodcut printer's device depicting St Anthony at end, with final blank leaf, contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, additional pigskin spine covering painted in white and black with red shelf mark, two clasps, first leaf repaired at edges, some repaired wormholes, occasional light staining, binding rubbed, lacking both straps

Urban Fuscus of Lauingen, inscription on inside front cover dated 1523 with Greek motto ανεχου και απεχου, with an ink armorial below; Johann Nepomuk Froschmayr, later inscription on title-page; Leo Olschki, Florence, bookseller's label

Censimento 16 CNCE 34922; Sander 4002

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This is a reprint of the 1506 Giunta edition, containing the first, third and fourth decades of Livy's history of Rome.

The binding is possibly from the workshop of Valentin Bormer in Leipzig, active c. 1477-1512 (Kyriss 104), as another book owned by Fuscus had a binding from this workshop. The present binding is somewhat rubbed which makes it difficult to attribute the binding tools with any certainty. The watermark in the board liners is one of Briquet 4890-4902, which are dated to the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century, across Germany and in the Veneto.